The promise of cultural studies of education

Educational Theory

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 527-543

  Hytten, Kathy ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 25444504943     PISSN: 00132004     EISSN: 17415446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-5446.1999.00527.x     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Ncil Postman The End of Education Redefimng the Value of School New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
2. With regard to focusing on engineering questions, in Learning to Labour, Paul Willis talks about the phenomenon, where tcachers'attention to immediate tcchnical and practical problems and needs prevents them from seeing a bigger picture. Paul Willis, Learning to Labour (Farnborough Saxon House "Mondaymoming" 1977.
3. While cultural studies is an interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary practice that has had a significant impact on the academic world (for example, note the emergence of cultural studies sections in bookstoresl, it has only slowly made inroads within schools of education. For the majority of educational scholars, cultural studies remains unfamiliar territory.
4. There seem to be two different traditions within cultural studies of education. On the one hand, there is a more general and playful study of cultural artifacts [such as movies), in order to get a better understanding of them. On the other hand, in the more critically oriented tradition, the goal is to use this understanding toaltersituationsinempoweringways. Thecritical tradtionincultural studies of education is often aligned with critical pedagogy.
5. Henry A. Giroux "Doing Cultural Studies: Youth and the Challenge of Pedagogy" Harvard Educational Review 64 1994 279.
6. Roger I. Simon, Teaching Against the Grain Texts for a Pedagogy of Possibility [New York: Bergin and Gamey, 1992, 17.
7. I trace the history of cultural stuhes more fully in an earlier work Kathy Hytten, "Cultural Studies of Education: Mapping the Terrain," Educational Foundations 11, no. 4 (1997): 39-60.
8. Richard Hoggart, in John Comer, "Studying Culture: Reflections and Assessments: An Interview with Richard Hoggart," Media, Culture, and Society 13 11991): 145.
9. Norma Schulman, "Conditions of their Own Making: An Intellectud History of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studes at the University of Birmingham," Canadian Tournal of Communication 17 11992): 4 http://hoshi.cic.sfu.ca/calj/cjc/BackIssues/17.2/schulman.htmls.
10. Alan O'Conner, "The Problem of American Cultural Studies," in What is Cultural Studies! A Reader, ed. John Storey (London: Arnold, 1996), 187. 12. Lawrence Grossberg, Bringing it all Back Home: Essays on Cultural Studies (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997), 264.
11. I develop the connection between cultural studies and critical pedagogy more fully in Kathy Hytten, "The Ethics of Cultural Studies," Educational Studies 29, no. 3 (1998): 247-65. I argue that writings in critical pedagogy, most notably those by Giroux, are increasingly situated within the cultural stuhes literature. Responding to critiques that critical pedagogy is too reductionistic and deterministic, practitioners have developed more complex and multifaceted understandings of power dynamics and have problematized such dichotomies as those of the oppressor versus the oppressed. They have exposed where the "reproductive theory of schooling has in some instances become a reactive mode of analysis, one that repeatedly oversimplifies the complexity of social and cultural life." Peter McLaren and Henry A. Giroux, "Writing from theMargins: Geographies of Identity, Pedagogy, and Power, in Revolutionary Multiculturalism: Pedugogies of Dissent for the New Milhiurn, ed. Peter McLaren (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 19971.
12. McLaren and Giroux, "Writing from the Margins," 21.
13. Peggy McIntosh, "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studes," in Readings in Sociocultural Studies in Education, 2d. ed., ed. Kate Rousmaniere (New York: McGraw Hill, College Custom Series, 19951, 190.
14. bell hooks, Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics [Boston: South End Press, 1990), 128.
15. Russell Ferguson, "Introduction: Invisible Center," in Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cuftures, ed. Russell Ferguson, Martha Gever, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Cornel West (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990), 9.
16. Henry A. Ciroux, Channel Surfing: Race Talk and the Destruction of Today's Youth (New York: St. Martin'sPress, 1997).T hisbookwillbecitedas CSin thetextforal1subsequentreferences.HenryA.G iroux with Patrick Shannon, eds., Education and Cultural Studies: Toward a Performative Practice (New York: Routledge, 1997). This book will be cited as ECS in the text for all subsequent references. Ursula A. Kelly, Schooling Desire: Literacy, Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy (New York: Routledge, 1997). This book will be cited as SD in the text for all subsequent references. John Marciano, Civic IIliteracyandEducation: The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of American Youth (New York Peter Lang, 1997). This book will be cited as CIE in the text for all subsequent references.
17. Despite the tide, however, and somewhat disappointingly, few of the seventeen contributors are from the field of education, and many only peripherally (if at all) address education-related concerns.
18. Allan Luke, "Literacies as Social Practices," English Education 3, no. 3 (19911, 139, cited in SD, 10.
19. lames W. Carey, "Overcoming Resistance to Cultural Studies," in Storey, What is Cultural Studies! 73.
20. While referring in this section to problems within auto/biography, Kelly's characterizations of exoticization and appropriation as "practices of power" is very useful. She writes that "exuticization... is a process whereby difference is constituted in the interests and through the fantasies of the dominant. Appropriation occurs through practices in which the culture, identities, andrepresentations of marginalized groups are consumed -viewed, interpreted, and reinterpreted (re-presented) - through the lenses, on the terms, and in the interests of the dominant" (SD, 651.
21. Henry A. Giroux, Disturbing Pleasures: Learning Popular Culture (New York: Routledge, 1994), 128.
22. Joel Pfister, "The Americanization of Cultural Studies" In Storey, Whnt is Cultural Studies! 293.